Schedule Conflict Processing Method, Device, Storage Medium, and Software Program Product

ABSTRACT

A schedule conflict processing method, a device, a storage medium, and a software program product, through which a schedule conflict can be detected, and a prompt can be displayed to a user, to assist the user in schedule management. The method includes: displaying information of a first schedule and prompting information in a first interface if a schedule conflict is determined, where the at least one control is configured to prompt a user of the existence of a plurality of schedule conflicts; displaying, in response to an operation on the first interface, a second processing interface that includes information relating to the first schedule and event names of a plurality of schedules; displaying a schedule detail interface of the first schedule in response to an operation on the second processing interface, and in response to an operation on the first interface.

This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No.202110909762.3, entitled “SCHEDULE CONFLICT PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE,STORAGE MEDIUM, AND SOFTWARE PROGRAM PRODUCT”, and filed with the ChinaNational Intellectual Property Administration on Aug. 9, 2021, which isincorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

This application relates to the field of software developmenttechnologies, and in particular, to a schedule conflict processingmethod, a device, a storage medium, and a software program product.

BACKGROUND

Schedule management is one of the common functions supported by variousclient applications. For example, applications such as a calendar and amailbox can support users to create and manage schedules. Duringmanagement on schedules by a user, a situation that there are aplurality of schedules in one day and there may be conflicts betweendifferent schedules often occurs. For example, two schedules overlap intime, and execution of one schedule will cause a failure of execution ofthe other schedule.

At present, one way to deal with a schedule conflict is that: only whenthe user creates a new schedule and it is found that the newly-createdschedule conflicts with another schedule having been created in time,the user is asked whether to confirm the creation; and for whether thereis a conflict between a plurality of schedules having been created,there will be no prompt and no management mechanism for dealing withconflicts, and it depends entirely on subjective memory or analysis ofthe user. Based on this, a solution is urgently needed to resolve theproblem.

SUMMARY

This application provides a schedule conflict processing method, adevice, a storage medium, and a software program product, which canperform conflict prompting and processing for a plurality of createdschedules to be executed after creation of a new schedule withoutrequiring a user to subjectively analyze whether a conflict exists.

According to a first aspect, the technical solution of this applicationprovides a schedule conflict processing method, including: determiningexistence of a schedule conflict; displaying a first interface, wherethe first interface includes at least one control, and the at least onecontrol is configured to prompt a user of the existence of the scheduleconflict; detecting a target operation on the at least one control; anddisplaying at least one processing interface in response to the targetoperation, where the at least one processing interface is configured toprocess schedule conflicts.

In a possible implementation, the at least one control includes a firstpop-up window; and the displaying a first interface includes: displayingthe first pop-up window, and displaying first text in the first pop-upwindow, where the first text is used for expressing semantics ofexistence of a conflict between at least two schedules.

In a possible implementation, the at least one control further includesa first button; and the displaying a first interface further includes:displaying the first button in the first pop-up window.

In a possible implementation, the detecting a target operation on the atleast one control includes: detecting a first operation on the firstbutton; and the displaying at least one processing interface in responseto the target operation includes: displaying a first processinginterface in response to the first operation, where the first processinginterface is configured to modify a schedule time.

In a possible implementation, after the displaying a first processinginterface, the method further includes: displaying conflicting scheduleson the first processing interface, and detecting a second operation bythe user on the conflicting schedules, and performing a first processingoperation corresponding to the second operation, where the secondoperation includes one of dragging, long pressing, clicking, anddouble-clicking; and the first processing operation includes: modifyinga time of a dragged schedule according to a dragging operation by theuser; or popping up, according to one operation of long pressing,clicking, and double-clicking by the user, a time selector to modify atime of a selected schedule.

In a possible implementation, the at least one control further includesa first label used for waking up a voice assistant; the displaying afirst interface further includes: displaying the first label in thefirst pop-up window; the detecting a target operation on the at leastone control includes: detecting a third operation on the first label;and after the detecting a target operation on the at least one control,the method further includes: triggering the voice assistant to broadcastthe first text through voice.

In a possible implementation, the at least one control further includesa second label; and the displaying a first interface includes:displaying a schedule list; and displaying the second label in a displayregion corresponding to conflicting schedules in the schedule list,where semantics of the text displayed on the second label isconflicting.

In a possible implementation, the detecting a target operation on the atleast one control includes: detecting a fourth operation on the secondlabel or a display region corresponding to the second label; and thedisplaying at least one processing interface in response to the targetoperation includes: displaying a second processing interface in responseto the fourth operation.

In a possible implementation, after the displaying a second processinginterface, the method further includes: displaying at least onecandidate item used for conflict processing on the second processinginterface, where the at least one candidate item includes at least oneof the following candidate items: reminding, entrusting, asking forleave, ignoring, deleting, and rejecting.

In a possible implementation, after the displaying at least onecandidate item used for conflict processing on the second processinginterface, the method further includes: detecting a selection operationon the at least one candidate item, and performing a second processingoperation, where the second processing operation includes any one of thefollowing processing operations: detecting a fifth operation on thereminding candidate item, and jumping to a reminding setting interface;jumping to a first email editing interface after a sixth operation onthe entrusting candidate item is detected, where a recipient of thefirst email editing interface is an entrusted party; jumping to a secondemail editing interface after a seventh operation on the ask-for-leavecandidate item is detected, where a recipient of the second emailediting interface is a leave approval party; and a selected schedule isrespectively ignored, deleted, or rejected after it is detected that theuser performs an eighth operation with the ignoring candidate item, thedeleting candidate item, or the rejecting candidate item as an operationobject.

In a possible implementation, after the performing a first processingoperation corresponding to the second operation, or after the performinga second processing operation, the method further includes: refreshingthe at least one control according to the first processing operation orthe second processing operation.

According to a second aspect, the technical solution of this applicationfurther provides an electronic device, including a memory configured tostore program instructions and a processor configured to execute theprogram instructions, the program instructions, when executed by theprocessor, triggering the electronic device to perform the methodaccording to any one of the first aspect described above.

According to a third aspect, the technical solution of this applicationfurther provides a storage medium, storing program instructions, theprogram instructions, when run on an electronic device, causing theelectronic device to perform the method according to any one of thefirst aspect described above.

According to a fourth aspect, the technical solution of this applicationfurther provides a software program product, including programinstructions, the program instructions, when run on an electronicdevice, causing the electronic device to perform the method according toany one of the second aspect described above.

According to the method, the device, the storage medium, and thesoftware program product provided in the embodiments of thisapplication, after a schedule is created, if it is determined that thereis a schedule conflict, a user will be prompted of the conflict on acorresponding interface, and an entry for the user to process theconflict will be provided to guide the user to process the conflict, sothat the user can be informed of the conflict situation in time andperform processing, thereby reducing dependence on the user's subjectiveconsciousness, reducing occurrence of situations such as schedulingconfusion caused by the user's subjective forgetting of conflicts, andhelping improve user experience.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an example of an application scenarioof a technical solution of this application:

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of opening a calendar APP month viewinterface (with a conflict prompt) by a user;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of opening a calendar APP month viewinterface (without a conflict prompt) by a user before implementation ofa technical solution of this application:

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a software architecture of a scheduleconflict processing method according to an embodiment of thisapplication:

FIG. 5A and FIG. 5B are a flowchart of signaling between functionalmodules in a software architecture in a schedule conflict processingmethod according to an embodiment of this application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an interface example of performingschedule conflict prompting based on a schedule invitation email in aschedule conflict processing method according to an embodiment of thisapplication;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an interface example of prompting aschedule conflict based on an email in a schedule conflict processingmethod according to an embodiment of this application;

FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B are a schematic diagram of three interface examplescorresponding to modifying a schedule time in a schedule conflictprocessing method according to an embodiment of this application:

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of an interface example of a first pop-upwindow in a possible implementation in a schedule conflict processingmethod according to an embodiment of this application;

FIG. 10 is an exemplary diagram of a schedule detail interface in apossible implementation in a schedule conflict processing methodaccording to an embodiment of this application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of an example of a create-new-emailinterface opened after entrusting processing in a schedule conflictprocessing method according to an embodiment of this application:

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of an example of a month view interfaceafter conflict processing in a schedule conflict processing methodaccording to an embodiment of this application:

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of performing a conflict prompt through adesktop card in an embodiment of a schedule conflict processing methodaccording to an embodiment of this application;

FIG. 14 is a schematic flowchart of an embodiment of a schedule conflictprocessing method according to an embodiment of this application;

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram of an example of a month view interfacein still another possible implementation in a schedule conflictprocessing method according to an embodiment of this application:

FIG. 16 is another schematic diagram of an example of a month viewinterface after conflict processing in a schedule conflict processingmethod according to an embodiment of this application:

FIG. 17 is a schematic diagram of a software layered framework of aschedule conflict processing method according to an embodiment of thisapplication;

FIG. 18 is a flowchart of signaling between modules in the softwarelayered architecture shown in FIG. 13 ;

FIG. 19 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an embodimentof an electronic device according to an embodiment of this application;and

FIG. 20 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of anotherembodiment of an electronic device according to an embodiment of thisapplication.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

The following describes technical solutions of this application withreference to accompanying drawings.

In an application scenario of schedule management, APPs that supportschedule management, such as calendars, lack explicit prompts forconflicts between different schedules that have been written into aschedule list, which makes it difficult for users to find scheduleconflicts.

In view of this, the embodiments of this application provide a solution,in which after a new schedule is created, schedule information of aplurality of schedules in the schedule list is queried for, whetherthere is a conflict between different schedules is detected, and after aconflict is found, the user is prompted of the conflict, and guided tomanage the conflicting schedules, thereby providing the user with aconvenient conflict processing mechanism to deal with schedule conflictproblems.

Referring to FIG. 1 , the schedule conflict processing method providedin the embodiments of this application is applicable to schedulemanagement scenarios implemented based on various terminal devices. Forexample, the method is applicable to wearable electronic devices such asa mobile phone U1, a tablet computer T1, a personal computer (personalcomputer, PC), and a smart watch W1 shown in FIG. 1 , and is alsoapplicable to a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant,PDA), an augmented reality (augmented reality, AR) device, a virtualreality (virtual reality, VR) device, and various teaching auxiliarytools (such as a learning machine and an early education machine) notshown in FIG. 1 . In an actual application scenario, a conflict promptshown in FIG. 1 may be performed on a user interaction interface (suchas an interface I1 shown in FIG. 1 ) of a corresponding applicationbased on the foregoing devices, for example, performing a correspondingconflict prompt during schedule management performed through a PC-sidemailbox, or prompting which courses are in conflict during schedule(subjects or learning items) arrangement through a learning machine. Theapplication (that is, a first application) configured to realize thesolution of this application may be any application product thatsupports a schedule management function, for example, various clientapplications that support schedule management such as a calendar, amailbox, and a memo.

A typical application scenario to which the solution provided in theembodiments of this application is applicable is a schedule managementscenario in a calendar APP. The following uses the schedule managementscenario in the calendar APP based on intelligent operation as anexample to describe the solution provided in the embodiments of thisapplication.

Referring to FIG. 2 , for example, the current date is Mar. 25, 2021,and the user clicks an icon corresponding to the calendar APP on themain interface U21 of the mobile phone, and a month view interface U22shown in FIG. 2 can be opened. The user has created four schedules onthe date, and the schedule titles are: “College English I”. “Collegephysics”, “*** project meeting”, and “Calendar code review meeting”respectively. The schedule “*** project meeting” from 14:00 to 16:00 inthe afternoon conflicts with the schedule “Calendar code review meeting”from 14:30 to 15:30 in the afternoon. Based on the schedule conflictprocessing method provided in the embodiments of this application, aconflict prompt will be performed in the opened month view interfaceU22. Referring to FIG. 3 , in a case that no conflict prompt isperformed in the related art, after the calendar icon is clicked, anoriginal month view interface U31 shown in FIG. 3 can be opened, andonly the plurality of schedules corresponding to the current day can bedisplayed on the original month view interface 131.

Specifically, the embodiments of this application provide the followingmethod to deal with a schedule conflict problem: Information ofschedules to be executed is queried for; and a first interface isdisplayed after existence of a schedule conflict is determined, wherethe first interface includes at least one control, and the at least onecontrol is configured to prompt a user of the existence of the scheduleconflict. For example, the at least one control may include pop-upwindows, buttons, labels, and the like. Manners in which the user isprompted of the existence of the schedule conflict based on the at leastone control may be displaying text, graphics, a symbol marker, or thelike representing the semantics of “conflicting” on a control.Subsequently, if a target operation on the at least one control isdetected, at least one processing interface for processing scheduleconflicts is displayed in response to the target operation. Theprocessing interface includes a full-screen display interface, and mayalternatively include a control display interface, for example, a pop-upwindow interface. The target operation may be a click operation, a longpressing operation, or the like.

It should be noted that, the displaying a first interface may beperformed in response to the user's instruction to open the firstinterface, instead of triggering display of the first interface when aschedule conflict is detected. A trigger condition of the firstinterface may be a user operation. For example, the first interface maybe a month view interface, and the user clicks the calendar icon, thendisplay of the month view interface is triggered. At least one controlfor used for conflict prompting is displayed in the displayed month viewinterface.

Generally, only for the schedules that have been created, correspondingschedule information can be found. Therefore, to query for informationof schedules to be executed is to query for a plurality of schedulesthat have been created, and objects of the query is the schedules to beexecuted, excluding expired schedules and schedules rejected by theuser. In addition, in a possible implementation, the plurality ofschedules that are queried for are a plurality of schedules currentlyselected by the user.

In a possible implementation, in a case that it is detected that theuser requests to open any “date” or “day” in the calendar APP, whetherthere is a conflict between the plurality of schedules on the datecorresponding to a number clicked by the user is queried for. That is,the trigger timing for detecting whether there is a conflict between aplurality of schedules in a schedule list may be that the user performsoperations, such as clicking, on a calendar icon or any numberrepresenting a date in the calendar month view interface. For example,referring to FIG. 2 , the current date is March 25, so that when theuser clicks the calendar icon, it is defaulted that the user clicks thenumber 25. In the opened month view interface, the number “25” is in aselected state. Whether there is a conflict between the plurality ofschedules that need to be executed on March 25 in time is queried for.

The user may click other dates in the month view interface U22 shown inFIG. 2 . For example, if the user clicks the number “27”, 27 is in theselected state, and the schedule queried for is a schedule correspondingto 27th. In a possible implementation, querying for information of theschedules to be executed includes first determining whether there aretwo or more schedules corresponding to the current day, and if there isonly one schedule, no subsequent steps need to be performed.

In another possible implementation, conflict detection may alternativelybe set periodically, for example, performing regular query every day,and querying for whether there is conflict between the plurality ofschedules to be executed on the current day at 12:00 am or anotherpredetermined time every day; or querying for a plurality of schedulesand detecting whether there is a conflict before users' wake-up time fordifferent users according to the wake-up time of the users intelligentlyidentified.

In still another possible implementation, the trigger timing fordetecting a schedule conflict may alternatively be a time point for newschedule creating or schedule synchronization, for example, whencreating a new schedule, determining whether the new schedule conflictswith an existing schedule according to the time of the new schedule. Forschedule synchronization, a schedule time of each synchronized scheduleis acquired respectively, and whether the schedule time conflicts withan existing schedule is determined through comparison respectively.

It should be noted that, referring to FIG. 4 , FIG. 5A, and FIG. 5B, theschedule information in the schedule list may come from the followingseveral ways:

New schedule creating: the local schedule information obtained by theuser by performing new schedule creating on a terminal device, whereinformation of this type of schedules such as address fields, timefields, and event names are all inputted by the user.

Schedule Synchronization:

-   -   importing a plurality of pieces of schedule information created        by the user based on an email account, or schedule information        in a schedule invitation received by the user through the        mailbox, into the schedule list to realize synchronization with        the mailbox schedules;    -   schedule information intelligently identified from shared data        provided by a third-party application, where for example, the        third-party application may be a Short Message Service (Short        Message Service, SMS) application, itinerary, travel, or any        service application that supports the ordering of train tickets,        air tickets, and bus tickets, and after a data access permission        is obtained, the data content thereof is analyzed and        identified, and schedule information is extracted from the data        content; and    -   synchronizing schedule information based on a cloud server,        where a user with a cloud server account may choose to upload        schedule information of clients to the cloud server, so that the        same user's schedule information is obtained through the cloud        server, and the user does not need to repeatedly create the same        schedule on different clients; and one creation can be        synchronized on other clients, thereby reducing the tedious        operation of repeatedly creating a new schedule.

For example, referring to FIG. 6 , which shows an example of an emailinterface for performing a schedule invitation through an email. Theuser receives a schedule invitation with the schedule name “casecommunication of ****** plan” initiated by the booker, and after it isdetected that the user accepts the invitation, the schedule is added toa schedule list. In addition, in a possible implementation, after it isdetected that the user accepts the invitation, whether the time of theschedule conflicts with other schedules on the same day is queried for.If it is determined that there is a conflict, a text label or button isdisplayed on the email interface to prompt the user that there is aconflict. For example, referring to FIG. 6 , a text label “Pleaseanswer. This appointment conflicts with another appointment on yourcalendar” is displayed on the email interface, to prompt the user thatthere is a conflict, where “appointment” is schedule. After the userclicks the text label, the interface shown in FIG. 7 is displayed. Onthe interface, at least two conflicting schedules are displayed side byside. For example, the schedule “case communication of ****** plan” andanother schedule “SEP case learning (the 4th session) . . . ” aredisplayed side by side to prompt the user that there is a conflictbetween the two schedules.

It should be noted that, in some implementations, the detection (query)of existence conflicting objects is limited to a plurality of scheduleson the same day, and conflict detection is not performed for cross-dayschedules and all-day schedules. In another implementation, an all-dayschedule or a cross-day schedule may be used as a query object. Thefollowing uses a plurality of schedules within the same day as detectionobjects for an exemplary description.

It should be noted that, in the embodiments of this application,conflicting includes conflicts in either of the time dimension and thespatial dimension, and generally refers to conflicts in time, that is,the occurrence times of two or more schedules overlap. In some cases,conflicting can also refer to conflicts in locations, for example, thetime of one schedule created by the user is from 14:00 to 16:00 in theafternoon, and the time of another schedule is from 16:00 to 17:00 inthe afternoon. Although the times of the two schedules have no conflict,the location of the former schedule is city A, the location of thelatter schedule is city B, and it is impossible for the user to go fromcity A to city B instantly. Therefore, these two schedules also conflictwith each other. In some embodiments, this situation may also bedetermined as conflicting.

In a possible implementation, the times of different schedules arequeried for, and if the times overlap, it is determined that there is aconflict between the two or more schedules. Alternatively; for twoschedules between which a time difference is less than a presetduration, location information is further acquired. If the two locationsare relatively far apart, arrival cannot be realized based on theexisting means of transportation within the preset duration, it can alsobe determined that there is a conflict between the two schedules.

Referring to FIG. 4 , FIG. 5A, and FIG. 5B, schedule conflict promptingand processing can be implemented based on a calendar storage module anda calendar module. The calendar module includes a month view scheduleunit, a pop-up window unit for processing conflicts, a smart suggestionunit, and a day view schedule unit; and the calendar storage modulestores a schedule table, used for maintaining schedule information of aplurality of schedules. For example, in the schedule conflict processingmethod provided in the embodiments of this application, scheduleinformation is obtained through at least one of several ways including acloud server, a mailbox, scenario intelligence, and new schedulecreating, and written into the schedule table. After the month viewschedule unit detects that the user clicks the icon of the calendar APP,on the opened month view schedule interface, after the numberrepresenting “day” is clicked, whether there is a conflict between aplurality of schedules in the schedule table in time is queried for. Ifthere is a conflict, a conflict marker in the schedule table is updated,and a notification is sent to the smart suggestion unit to trigger aconflict prompt. The smart suggestion unit prompts the conflict, andopens a day view schedule interface in response to a user instruction.The day view schedule unit adjusts a schedule time based on the userinstruction, updates the schedule time, and notifies the smartsuggestion unit to update a conflict suggestion. The smart suggestionunit further sends a notification to the pop-up window unit forprocessing conflicts to trigger conflict processing, and the pop-upwindow unit for processing conflicts processes conflicting schedules(reminding, ignoring, entrusting, and the like) in response to a userinstruction, updates a conflict suggestion after the processing, andnotifies the month view schedule unit to update the conflict display.

Conflict prompting and processing manners provided in the embodiments ofthis application are listed below.

Manner 1:

The at least one control includes a first pop-up window and a firstbutton, and conflict prompting and processing are performed based on thefirst pop-up window and the first button.

After it is determined that there is a conflict between the plurality ofschedules to be executed of the current day, a first pop-up window ispopped up on the first interface for a conflict prompt. The firstinterface may be any interface on which the application interacts withthe user. The calendar APP is used as an example. In a possibleimplementation, the first interface may be a calendar month viewinterface, and the interface U22 shown in FIG. 2 may serve as the firstinterface. At least first text is displayed in the first pop-up window,and optionally, the first button may further be displayed. The firsttext is any kind of text content of which natural semantics is thatthere is a schedule conflict. The first button is a function button thattriggers an event of opening a second interface, and is configured forthe user to view which specific schedules have conflicts therebetween.For example, after the user clicks the first button, a correspondingsecond interface is opened for the user to view conflict details. Forexample, the second interface may be a day view interface on which atleast two pieces of conflicting schedule information are displayed.

For example, referring to FIG. 2 , a first pop-up window W1 is popped upon the interface U22, and the first text “You have two conflictingschedules, please arrange your time rationally” is displayed in thefirst pop-up window. In addition, a button B1 (that is, the firstbutton) for viewing which two or several specific schedules conflictwith each other is provided, and the text displayed on the button B1 is“View”. The text on the button B1 may be a variety of words such as“Click to view details”. “Details”, “Modify”, and the like, and is notlimited to the word shown in FIG. 2 . In addition, the first textdisplayed in the first pop-up window may be any text capable ofrepresenting natural semantics of conflicting, for example, mayalternatively be words such as “There is a schedule conflict, pleaseprocess it”. “You have conflicting schedules”, and “It is detected thatthere are at least two schedules having a conflict”, and is not limitedto the example shown in FIG. 2 .

For example, it is detected that the user has performed a firstoperation on the first button B1. For example, the first operation maybe a click (a single click). After the user clicks the button B1 in W1in the first pop-up window, a day view interface U81 (second interface)shown in FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B is opened. It can be seen intuitively fromthe interface U81 in FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B that there is a conflictbetween the two schedules “*** project meeting” and “Calendar codereview meeting” in the afternoon.

Optionally, the user may adjust the times of conflicting schedules basedon the second interface. When it is detected that the user performs anyoperation (second operation) of dragging, long pressing, clicking, ordouble-clicking by using one of the conflicting schedules as anoperation object, a corresponding processing operation is performed. Forexample, when the user drags a schedule along the time axis, the time ofthe dragged schedule is modified according to the specific coordinateinformation of the user's dragging operation. For example, referring tothe interface U82 in FIG. 8 A and FIG. 8B, the user drags the “***project meeting” schedule along the time axis to be after Calendar codereview meeting, and the time of the schedule is correspondingly modifiedto 6:00 to 8:00 pm according to the user's dragging position.Alternatively, when it is detected that the user has performed anyoperation of long pressing, clicking, or double-clicking on one of theconflicting schedules, a time selector is popped up to modify the timeof the selected schedule. After the time is adjusted, referring to theinterface U83 in FIG. 8 A and FIG. 8B. Compared with the interface U22in FIG. 2 , conflict prompting is no longer performed on the re-openedmonth view interface U83.

Optionally, the at least one control may further include a first label,where the first label may be set in the first pop-up window for wakingup a voice assistant. After it is detected that the user performs athird operation with the first label as an operation object, the voiceassistant is triggered to broadcast the first text. The third operationmay alternatively be any one of clicking, double-clicking, and longpressing.

Manner 2:

The at least one control may include a second label, and conflictprompting and processing are performed based on the second label.

Manner 1 provides a first entry (that is, the first button) for the userto view specific information of conflicting schedules and modify aschedule time. In Manner 2, after it is determined that there is aschedule conflict, a second entry for the user to process the conflictis provided on the first interface, and the second entry can beimplemented based on interface interaction or voice interaction. Forexample, the second entry may be a control such as a button or a labelfor opening a conflict processing window. Alternatively, the secondentry may be a voice interface provided by the voice playback manner,which can be realized through a smart voice assistant (such as “YOYO”).For example, when the smart voice assistant is awakened, the user canopen the corresponding conflict processing window through a voiceinstruction.

A feasible manner implemented based on interface interaction isintroduced below. The second entry is a function button set on the firstinterface. When a schedule list with a plurality of pieces of scheduleinformation is displayed on the first interface, a second label may bedisplayed in display regions respectively corresponding to at least twoconflicting schedules, and the semantics of a title text on the secondlabel represents conflicting. For example, as shown in the month viewinterface U22 in FIG. 2 , a schedule list including four schedules isshown under the month view interface. In the schedule list, there is aconflict between the schedule of which the event name (that is, thetitle name) is “***Project Meeting” and the schedule of which the eventname is “Calendar code review meeting”. Therefore, a second label B2 isrespectively displayed in display regions corresponding to the twocorresponding schedules in the day schedule list on the month viewinterface, and the text content displayed on the second label B2 is“conflict”. As shown in the interface U22 in FIG. 2 , the region insidethe rounded rectangular box for displaying schedule information is thedisplay region corresponding to the corresponding schedule. This displayregion may alternatively be understood as a control, and the controlincludes a second label. For example, the rounded rectangular box inwhich “*** project meeting” and “Honor Q7 Building Beijing ResearchInstitute J Park” are displayed is the display region corresponding tothe schedule “*** project meeting”.

The text content of the second label may alternatively be other fieldsor characters that can represent conflicting meanings, so as to serve asa conflict prompt. It should be noted that the month view interface U22in FIG. 2 simultaneously shows the first pop-up window W1 and the firstbutton B1 set based on Manner 1 and the second label B2 set based onManner 2, which is only an example. In an actual application, only oneof the manners may be used for conflict prompting. For example, only thesecond label B2 is displayed, and the first pop-up window and the firstbutton B1 are not displayed; or only the first button B1 and the firstpop-up window W1 are displayed, and the second label B2 is notdisplayed.

Subsequently, in an implementation, it is detected that the userperforms a fourth operation on the display region in which the secondlabel is located, then the second pop-up window is opened. In thismanner, the second label is not used as an independent operation object,but when the user performs an operation on the second label or a regionnear the second label, display of a second processing interface istriggered. For example, displaying the second processing interface maybe popping up a second pop-up window.

For example, on the interface U22 in FIG. 2 , the region inside therounded rectangular box for displaying the schedule “Calendar codereview meeting Honor Q7 Building Beijing Research Institute J Park” isthe display region in which the second label B2 is located. The userlong presses any position within the rounded rectangular box, and thesecond pop-up window can be triggered. The fourth operation may beoperations such as double-clicking, long pressing, and sliding. Forexample, in a possible implementation, the long pressing operation isselected as the fourth operation. When it is detected that the userperforms a long pressing operation on the second label or a region nearthe second label (within the rounded rectangular box), the second pop-upwindow is opened.

In another implementation, the second label may be used as anindependent operable object. That is, the second label may be used as aseparate button, and the user can open the second pop-up window byperforming operations such as clicking on the button.

It should be noted that the operation of opening the second pop-upwindow can be distinguished from the operation of opening a scheduledetail interface. For example, a long pressing operation is performed toopen the second pop-up window, and a single-click operation is performedto open the schedule detail interface. The user long presses the secondlabel B2 or long presses the display region corresponding to thecorresponding schedule “Calendar code review meeting”, and a secondpop-up window W2 shown in FIG. 9 may be popped up. Information currentlydisplayed in the second pop-up window W2 is detailed information of theCalendar review code meeting, indicating that the schedule is in aselected state. The user clicks the region corresponding to the schedule“Calendar code review meeting”, then the schedule detail interface ofthe Calendar code review meeting can be opened, as shown in FIG. 10 .

The second pop-up window is a window for the user to process conflicts,and is at least configured to display at least one candidate item forperforming conflict processing on at least two schedules, where thecandidate item includes at least one of reminding, entrusting, askingfor leave, ignoring, deleting, and rejecting, that is, may be any one orany combination of reminding, entrusting, asking for leave, ignoring,deleting, and rejecting. Reminding may include a strong reminder and aweak reminder. The strong reminder may be an alarm clock reminder, andthe weak reminder may be performing reminding in manners such as sendinga system notification message.

In a possible implementation, five candidate items including “alarmclock reminder”, “entrusting”, “asking for leave”, “ignoring” and“deleting” are set below the second pop-up window, to processconflicting schedules. The slash is used to mark a selected candidateitem, that is, the entrusting candidate item is in a selected state,indicating that the user needs to perform entrusting processing for theschedule of Calendar code review meeting. The entrusting meansentrusting the schedule to another person for execution on behalf of theuser. After the user selects entrusting, the device automatically jumpsto an operation interface of third-party applications such as a mailboxand an instant messaging application, and users can invite others toprocess the schedule on their behalf in manners such as sending an emailand sending a message.

In another possible implementation, the candidate items for conflictprocessing displayed in the second pop-up window only include “ignoring,“deleting”, and “alarm clock reminder”; or only include “entrusting”,“asking for leave”, and “deleting”. After the user selects the“ignoring” candidate item, the item of the corresponding schedule in theschedule list becomes gray, and is no longer highlighted, indicatingthat the schedule is in a state of being unnecessary to be processed orbeing incapable of being processed. Subsequently, a fifth operation onthe reminding candidate item is detected, and a reminding settinginterface is jumped to; a first email editing interface is jumped toafter a sixth operation on the entrusting candidate item is detected,where a recipient of the first email editing interface is an entrustedparty; a second email editing interface is jumped to after a seventhoperation on the ask-for-leave candidate item is detected, where arecipient of the second email editing interface is a leave approvalparty; and a selected schedule is respectively ignored, deleted, orrejected after it is detected that the user performs an eighth operationwith the ignoring candidate item, the deleting candidate item, or therejecting candidate item as an operation object.

When it is detected that the user selects an “entrusting” button, amailbox call event is triggered, to jump to a first email editinginterface, and the identity (for example, an ID) of a target schedule tobe entrusted to others (that is, the schedule in a selected state in thesecond pop-up window) is acquired. A call request carrying the identityof the target schedule is sent to start the mailbox and open acreate-new-email interface, and an email address of at least one of therecipient (that is, the entrusted person), the sender (the principal),the carbon copy object, and the blind carbon copy object isautomatically generated. In addition, the subject and content of theemail are automatically generated to reduce user operations. Forexample, referring to FIG. 11 , after the user clicks the “entrusting”button, the “create-new-email” interface shown in FIG. 11 is opened, andthe subject is “*** schedule entrustment”. Optionally, in anotherimplementation, the content of the email body is automatically generatedbased on the target schedule, for example, “Hi, the sender *** requeststo entrust you to process the *** schedule . . . ”. The automaticgeneration of the content of the email body can be realized by calling apreset entrusting content template.

The sender's email address is generally considered to be an emailaddress of a user that initiates the entrusting request by default. Forthe schedule information added through the schedule invitation based onan email, the email address of the inviter may be used as the emailaddress of the recipient or the carbon copy object, and the emailaddress for receiving the schedule invitation may be used as thesender's email address. In other scenarios, the email addressinformation such as the recipient can prompt the user to performinputting in advance, or after the create-new-email interface is opened,if the email address cannot be obtained automatically, the user will beprompted of “Failed to read the email address of the recipient Pleasemanually input the email address of the recipient”.

After the email is sent successfully, the mailbox APP feeds a successfulsending message back to the calendar APP in the form of a point-to-pointmessage, or notifies the calendar APP by broadcasting. The calendar APPperforms updating on the data segment of the schedule in the scheduletable.

The processing manner corresponding to the “ask-for-leave” candidateitem may alternatively be sending an email to the object responsible forapproving a leave application by calling the mailbox. If it is detectedthat the user selects the “ask-for-leave” candidate item, then thesecond email editing interface is jumped to. On the second email editinginterface, the email address of the object responsible for approving aleave application may be inputted in advance, that is, when the usercreates a new schedule, the user will be prompted to input the emailaddress information of the person asking for leave; or in a case thatthere is the acquisition permission, the email address information ofthe manager of the current user is acquired through intelligentidentification, and automatically generated as the recipient's emailaddress. When the user clicks the “ask-for-leave” button, the interfaceshown in FIG. 11 may also be triggered to be opened. Correspondingly,the subject name is modified to “***schedule leave application”, and thecontent of the email body is modified. Details will not be repeatedherein. The first email editing interface or the second email editinginterface may be a create-new-email interface, a forwarding interface,or a replying interface.

The foregoing candidate items provide a convenient processing approachto assist users in effectively managing conflicting schedules.

It should be noted that in the second pop-up window W2 that is poppedup, the conflicting schedules may be displayed side by side on thecorresponding time axis, and may be dragged and dropped. The user maymodify the time of the schedule by dragging and dropping one of theschedules, to avoid a conflict between the two schedules in time.

Method 1 provides a convenient manner of adjusting the schedule time,which is applicable to scenarios in which the schedule time can beadjusted; and Manner 2 provides more conflict processing manners, and isapplicable to scenarios in which the schedule time cannot be adjusted.

During conflict processing, the conflict processing performed by theuser is recorded according to the conflict processing behavior performedby the user. In a possible implementation, the display of thecorresponding schedule on each interface is updated according to theconflict processing record, so that the user can intuitively see theprocessing information for previous schedules.

For example, refer to FIG. 12 for the updated first interface after theentrusting process is performed. There will be no longer a conflictprompt in the item corresponding to the *** project meeting. That is,the “conflict” button (that is, the second label) B2 will no longer bedisplayed. The text content of the corresponding second label in theitem corresponding to Calendar code review meeting is modified from“conflict” to “entrusting” according to the conflict processing record,indicating that the user has performed entrusting processing on theschedule. In another possible implementation, when the conflict buttonis no longer displayed, the processing record is also not displayed,that is, the second label is no longer displayed. For example, the“entrusting” button is not displayed for the item of the schedule“Calendar code review meeting” in FIG. 12 .

in a possible implementation, the user sets an alarm clock reminderschedule, and the “conflict” button is still displayed in the schedulelist. The user sets an alarm clock reminder for the schedule, indicatingthat the routine is relatively important, so that even if the conflictprocessing is performed, the conflict prompting will continue untilexecution of the schedule is completed.

Manner 3:

In this manner, a conflict button is displayed on a schedule carddisplayed through a desktop interface of the terminal device to promptthe user that there is a schedule conflict. For example, referring toFIG. 13 , if there is a conflict between the schedule “Magic UI 5.0design exploration concept . . . ” and the schedule “Personal affairscenter meeting minutes”, a “conflict” button is respectively added todesignated positions near labels of the two schedules.

It should be noted that the maintenance of the schedule information maybe realized through a schedule table. For example, information such asschedule names, IDs assigned to schedules by the system, schedule times,and locations may be recorded in the schedule table. The schedule tableis a data table with structured storage. For the conflict processingrecord of each schedule, a processing record table may be set separatelyto record the conflict processing operations for each schedule, so as tofacilitate user query, or the conflict processing records may be writteninto the schedule table together.

For example, three schedules are used as an example. The schedule tableincluding schedule conflict processing records is shown in Table Ibelow:

TABLE 1 Asking for Schedule ID Name Time Location Conflict Remindingleave Entrusting Ignoring Deleting Rejecting 000001 *** meeting *** ***Conflict with 1 0 0 0 0 0 000100 000100 *** project *** **** Conflictwith 0 0 1 0 0 0 000001 000111 Bodybuilding *** **** 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

This table records marker bits respectively corresponding to the itemssuch as reminding, entrusting, asking for leave, ignoring, deleting, andrejecting. If the marker is 1, it means that the user has performed thisoperation on the schedule. If the marker bit is 0, it means that theuser has not performed this operation on the schedule. For example, forthe schedule “***meeting” with the ID of 000001, the marker bit of thereminder item is 1, which means that the user has selected the“reminder” candidate in the conflict processing of the schedule.

Information such as the email address of the recipient of the email sentwhen entrusting or asking for leave can also be added to the aboveschedule.

It should be noted that the schedule is a data table for maintainingschedule information, and the schedule list is used to sequentiallydisplay the schedule information of each schedule on the interactiveinterface for the user.

A specific example of the method provided in the embodiments of thisapplication is listed below. As shown in FIG. 14 , in the embodiment,the method may further include the following process:

Step 1401, query the schedule information to be executed on the currentday:

In one possible implementation, step 1401 is triggered to be executed inresponse to the user's click operation on the calendar APP icon in themain interface or the click operation of selecting a certain day afteropening the calendar.

Step 1402: Determine whether there is a conflict between at least twoschedules? If there is a conflict, step 1411 and/or step 1421 isperformed; and if there is no conflict, the process ends. In thisembodiment, the process between step 1402 and step 1404 is divided intotwo branches for description, where the first branch includes steps 1411to 1415, and the second branch includes steps 1421 to 1425.

First Process Branch:

Step 1411: Pop up a first pop-up window on a first interface. A firsttext, a first button, and a label for waking up a voice assistant aredisplayed in the first pop-up window.

For example, referring to FIG. 15 , in addition to the first text “Youhave two conflicting schedules, please arrange your time rationally” andthe first button B1, the first pop-up window W1 further includes a labelL1, where text content of the label is “YOYO suggestion “scheduleconflict”, and this label can wake up the voice assistant. Optionally,when any operation such as clicking or long pressing performed by theuser with the label as the operation object is detected, the voiceassistant “YOYO” is awakened, and the text content of the first text isbroadcast by voice. In addition, after the first text is broadcast byvoice, the user may continue to be asked for that “YOYO can help youprocess conflicts, do you want to process the conflicts now?”, that is,continue to interact with the user based on the voice interactionmanner, and perform corresponding operations based on the user's voiceinstruction. Details are not described again in this embodiment.

Step 1412: Detect that the user clicks the first button B1.

Step 1413: Open a day view interface to display conflicting schedules.

Step 1414: Detect that the user performs a dragging operation on aschedule on the day view interface.

Step 1415: Modify a schedule time according to the user's draggingposition.

Second process branch:

Step 1421: Add a “conflict” button (that is, a second label) to theconflicting schedules in the schedule list.

As already described in Manner 2 above, one manner of marking conflictsmay be to add a second label B2 to display boxes corresponding to atleast two detected conflicting schedules. In this embodiment, the monthview interface of the calendar is used as the first interface. A firstpop-up window is popped up on this interface and a second label isdisplayed on this interface, and the corresponding interface example isshown in FIG. 15 . It should be noted that, in other embodiments, onlythe first pop-up window may be popped up or only the second label may bedisplayed. If only the first pop-up window is popped up on the firstinterface, a function button for opening the second pop-up window may beadded to the opened second interface to realize conflict processingother than time modification; and if only the second label is displayedon the first interface, candidate items for modifying the time mayfurther be added to the opened second pop-up window to realize timemodification. It can be seen that, based on the technical solutionprovided in the embodiments of this application, various embodimentsother than the listed embodiments or implementations can be obtainedadaptively.

In step 1422: Detect that the user long presses the “conflict” button,and perform step 523.

Step 1423: Open a second pop-up window, and display a plurality ofcandidate items for processing schedule conflicts.

Step 1424: Detect a candidate item selected by the user.

For example, after the second pop-up window is opened, the user selectsthe “*** project meeting” schedule, and selects the “reminding”candidate item for this schedule, then the device will display thereminding candidate item to be in a selected state, for example, ahighlighted state.

Step 1425: Start timing, trigger a reminder event at a specified time,and display corresponding schedule information on a reminder interface.

The reminding manner may be to push a text message and light up thescreen when the screen is locked, or may be a weak reminding manner suchas pushing a push message when the screen is unlocked, or may be astrong reminding manner such as an alarm clock reminder. Specifically,the corresponding option prompt box may be provided for the user topre-select the reminding manner. Subsequently, step 1404 is performed.

Step 1404: Save a conflict processing record.

Step 1405: Refresh the first interface according to the conflictprocessing record.

Refreshing the first interface may include refreshing the display of thefirst pop-up window and/or the second label, and refreshing the firstpop-up window includes refreshing a YOYO label. For example, referringto FIG. 16 , the schedule “Calendar code review meeting” after alarmclock reminder processing continues to retain the second label with theword “conflict”, so as to more obviously prompt the user to execute theschedule. In another possible implementation, the second label of the“*** project meeting” is updated to “reminder”, indicating that theschedule has been reminded. Alternatively, in another embodiment, thesecond label may be deleted, and the conflict marking and conflictprocessing record marking are no longer performed. If the user has notignored or deleted the “Calendar review code meeting” and “*** projectmeeting”, and has not adjusted the schedule time, the conflict stillexists, and the display of the first pop-up window on the firstinterface may be retained. In other embodiments, when there is noconflict between the plurality of schedules of the current day afterprocessing by the user, the first pop-up window is no longer displayed.

It is to be understood that some or all steps or operations in theforegoing embodiments are only examples, and other operations orvariations thereof may further be performed in the embodiments of thisapplication. In addition, the steps may be performed in an orderdifferent from that presented in the foregoing embodiments, and theoperations in the foregoing embodiments may not necessarily be allperformed.

The software architecture for implementing the technical solutionprovided in the embodiments of this application will be exemplarilydescribed below from the perspective of software implementation. Thetechnical solution provided in the embodiments of this application maybe implemented based on operating environments provided by operatingsystems such as Android, iOS (iPhone Operating System), windows phone,Symbian. BlackBerry OS, windows mobile, Harmony, Microsoft Windows.Unix, Linux, and Netware.

The software architecture shown in FIG. 4 . FIG. 5A, and FIG. 5Bdescribes a feasible design architecture of software functional modulesfrom the perspective of function realization. Next, how to build thesoftware layered architecture of the schedule conflict processing methodprovided in the embodiments of this application is described based onthe perspective of the layered architecture of the operating system.

Referring to FIG. 17 , in a possible implementation, an Androidoperating system is used as an example for illustration. A layeredarchitecture of the Android (Android) system includes an applicationlayer, a framework (Framework, FWK) layer, an Android runtime (Androidruntime) and system library layer, and a kernel layer from top to bottomrespectively. The technical solution provided in the embodiments of thisapplication may be realized by designing the application layer andcalling the application programming interface (Application ProgrammingInterface, APT) in the framework layer, without making changes to theAndroid runtime and system library layer and the kernel layer.

Specifically, the application layer may be further divided into a userinteraction layer, a business logic layer, and a data access layer. In apossible implementation, the method provided in the embodiments of thisapplication may be implemented through two software functional modules:a query module and an interaction module. Correspondingly, in a feasiblelayered architecture for implementing the technical solution of thisapplication, a query module is configured on the business logic layer, aschedule storage module is configured on the data access layer, and aninteraction module is configured on the user interaction layer.

The query module is configured to query information of schedules to beexecuted to determine whether there is conflict between at least twoschedules, and the interaction module is configured to executecorresponding user interaction events according to the query results ofthe query module to prompt the user of the conflict. Specifically, theinteraction module may prompt, on the First interface, the user thatthere is a conflict between at least two schedules when the query moduledetects that there is a schedule conflict. The schedule information tobe queried by the query module may be stored in the calendar storagemodule. When a query is required, the query module acquires data fromthe calendar storage module and performs conflict determining.

The query module may include a month view schedule unit; and theinteraction module may include a pop-up window unit for processingconflicts, a smart suggestion unit, and a day view schedule unit.

For example, referring to FIG. 18 , the signaling process between thequery module, the interaction module, and the calendar storage modulemay include:

The query module queries the schedule storage module (which may be, forexample, a calendar storage module) for schedule information. Afterdetecting that there is a schedule conflict, the query module notifiesthe interaction module to execute an interaction event for prompting theuser that there is a schedule conflict. In response to the notificationmessage, the interaction module executes a preset interaction event, forexample, popping up the first pop-up window on the first interface, andadding a “conflict” button to the conflicting schedule items (item) inthe schedule list, and performs a corresponding conflict processingoperation according to the user's operation performed on the firstbutton in the first pop-up window or the voice assistant label or the“conflict” button, and sends the conflict processing record to theschedule storage module for storage. The business logic of triggeringthe interaction event and performing which operation after the useroperation is detected is implemented through the business logic controllayer, and the corresponding control logic may be designed in the querymodule.

The function realization of the interaction module in the applicationlayer needs to call the API (not shown in the figure) in the frameworklayer to realize the interaction. For example, the window program may bemanaged by calling the window manager Window Manager, or the scheduleinformation data of the third-party application may be accessed bycalling the content provider Content Providers, the correspondingschedule list, the text box of the first text, and controls such as thefirst button and the second label may be constructed by calling the viewmanager View System. Alternatively, the notification managerNotification Manager may be called to set the prompt informationdisplayed in the status bar for a schedule conflict prompt.

The embodiments of this application further provide an electronicdevice, including a memory configured to store program instructions anda processor configured to execute the program instructions, the programinstructions, when executed by the processor, triggering the electronicdevice to perform the following steps:

querying information of schedules to be executed, and in a case that itis determined that there is a conflict between at least two schedules,prompting, on the first interface, the user that there is a conflictbetween at least two schedules, where the first interface is anyinterface through which the application interacts with the user.

The electronic device provided in the embodiments of this application isillustrated from the perspective of hardware implementation.

FIG. 19 shows a feasible product hardware architecture of an electronicdevice 190 according to an embodiment of this application. The hardwarearchitecture of the electronic device 190 may include:

a display screen 191, where various operations of prompting the userthat there is a schedule conflict in an interface interaction mannerneed to be realized through the display and sensing of the displayscreen. For example, the display screen 191 realizes the display of theinterfaces shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 , FIG. 6 to FIG. 13 , FIG. 15 toFIG. 16 and other drawings. Specifically, the display screen 191 mayinclude a display panel. The display panel may be a liquid crystaldisplay (liquid crystal display, LCD), an organic light-emitting diode(organic light-emitting diode, OLED), an active-matrix organic lightemitting diode (active-matrix organic light emitting diode, AMOLED), aflexible light-emitting diode (flex light-emitting diode, FLED), aMiniled, a MicroLed, a Micro-oLed, quantum dot light emitting diodes(quantum dot light emitting diodes, QLED), and the like. In someembodiments, the electronic device 190 may include two or more displayscreens 191.

Specifically, the display screen 191 may be a touch screen integratingtouch and display functions, for example, a capacitive touch screen, tobe configured to sense the user's operations such as clicking and longpressing on the first button or label and the second label in the firstpop-up window shown on the display screen. Specifically, the displayscreen 191 may sense a pressure signal generated by the user through apressure sensor, convert the pressure signal into an electrical signal,and complete the user instruction input. The pressure sensor may be aresistive pressure sensor, an inductive pressure sensor, a capacitivepressure sensor, or the like. When an operation such as clicking or longpressing is performed on the display screen 191, the electronic device190 detects strength of the touch operation by using the pressuresensor, and calculates a touch position according to a detection signalof the pressure sensor.

The processor 192 includes one or more processing units. For example,the processor 192 may include an application processor (applicationprocessor, AP), a modem processor, a graphics processing unit (graphicsprocessing unit, GPU), an image signal processor (image signalprocessor, ISP), a controller, and a digital signal processor (digitalsignal processor, DSP). Different processing units may be separatedevices, or may be integrated into one or more processors.

The memory 193 is configured to store data such as schedule informationand conflict processing record information. The memory 193 may be anexternal memory independent of the processor 192, or may be set in theprocessor 192. For example, in some embodiments, the memory built intothe processor 192 may be a cache, and is configured to store aninstruction or data that has just been used or cyclically used by theprocessor 192. If the processor 192 needs to use the instruction or thedata again, the processor may directly invoke the instruction or thedata from the cache, to avoid repeated access and reduce a waiting timeof the processor 192.

The memory 193 may be a read-only memory (read-only memory, ROM),another type of static storage device that can store static informationand instructions, a random access memory (random access memory, RAM), oranother type of dynamic storage device that can store information andinstructions, or may be an electrically erasable programmable read-onlymemory (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory, EEPROM) ora compact disc read-only memory (compact disc read-only memory, CD-ROM)or another compact disc storage, optical disc storage (includingcompressed optical discs, laser discs, optical discs, digital versatileoptical discs, and Blu-ray discs), magnetic disk storage media, oranother magnetic storage device, or may be any another medium that canbe used to carry or store desired program code in the form of aninstruction or a data structure and that can be accessed by a computer.

The power management module 194 receives input of the battery and/or thecharging management module, and supplies power for the processor 192,the memory 193, the display screen 191. The power management module 194may also be configured to monitor parameters such as a battery capacity,a quantity of battery cycles, and a battery health status (power leakageand impedance). In some other embodiments, the power management module194 may alternatively be disposed in the processor 192. In some otherembodiments, the power management module 194 and the charging managementmodule may alternatively be disposed in a same device.

It may be understood that the schematic structure in each drawing inthis embodiment of this application constitutes no specific limitationon the electronic device 190. In some other embodiments of thisapplication, the electronic device 190 may include more or fewercomponents than those shown in the figure, or some components may becombined, or some components may be divided, or different componentarrangements may be used. The components in the portrait may beimplemented by hardware, software, or a combination of software andhardware.

For example, in a possible implementation, referring to FIG. 20 , theelectronic device 190 may further include:

-   -   a speaker 201, a pickup 202, and an audio circuit 180, where the        speaker 201 is connected to the processor 192 through the audio        circuit, and is configured to play voice corresponding to first        text after the user wakes up the YOYO voice assistant. For        example, when the display screen 191 of the electronic device        190 displays the interface shown in FIG. 15 , after YOYO is        awakened, a voice broadcast “You have two conflicting schedules,        it is recommended to check and process it to avoid an impact on        your itinerary” is performed, and the pickup 202 picks up the        user's voice, and detects whether the user issues a viewed voice        instruction.

The motor 203 provides vibration power for the electronic device 190.For example, in the second pop-up window, when the user selects an alarmclock reminder, the motor can vibrate during reminding.

The input unit 204 is used for inputting user instructions, which may bea hardware device such as a keyboard, a mouse, and a stylus.

The wireless communications unit 205 is configured to perform wirelesscommunication with the cloud server to obtain schedule informationremotely. Specifically, the wireless communications unit 205 may be oneor more devices that integrate at least one communications processingmodule. The wireless communications module receives an electromagneticwave through an antenna, performs frequency modulation and filteringprocessing on the electromagnetic wave signal, and sends the processedsignal to the processor 192. The wireless communications unit 205 mayfurther receive a to-be-sent signal from the processor 192, performfrequency modulation and amplification on the to-be-sent signal, andconvert the signal into an electromagnetic wave for radiation throughthe antenna.

In a possible implementation, the processor 192 may include one or moreinterfaces. The interface may include an inter-integrated circuit(inter-integrated circuit, I2C) interface, an inter-integrated circuitsound (inter-integrated circuit sound, I2S) interface, a pulse codemodulation (pulse code modulation, PCM) interface, a universalasynchronous receiver/transmitter (universal asynchronousreceiver/transmitter. UART) interface, a general-purpose input/output(general-purpose input/output. GPIO), a universal serial bus (universalserial bus. USB) interface, and/or the like.

The processor 192 may include a plurality of groups of I2C buses, andthe processor 192 may be coupled to modules such as the power managementmodule 195 through different I2C bus interfaces. For example, theprocessor 192 may be coupled to the display screen 191 through the I2Cinterface, so that the processor 192 communicates with the displayscreen 191 through the I2C bus interface.

In a possible implementation, the processor 192 may include a pluralityof groups of I2S buses, where the I2S interface may be configured foraudio communication. The processor 192 may be coupled to the audiocircuit 180 by using the I2S bus, to implement communication between theprocessor 192 and the audio circuit 180, and then the speaker 201 iscontrolled to emit sound.

The embodiments of this application further provide a storage medium,storing program instructions, the program instructions, when run on anelectronic device, causing the electronic device to perform the methodaccording to any one of the foregoing embodiments.

The embodiments of this application further provide a software programproduct, including program instructions, the program instructions, whenrun on an electronic device, causing the electronic device to performthe method according to any one of the foregoing embodiments.

It should be understood that the term “unit” or “module” in theembodiments of this application may be implemented in the form ofsoftware and/or hardware, which is not specifically limited. Forexample, “unit” may be a software program, a hardware circuit or acombination of both to realize the foregoing functions. The hardwarecircuit may include an application specific integrated circuit(application specific integrated circuit, ASIC), an electronic circuit,a processor (for example, a shared processor, a dedicated processor, ora packet processor) configured to execute one or more software orfirmware programs, a memory, a combined logical circuit, and/or anothersuitable component that supports the described functions.

Therefore, the exemplary units and modules described in the embodimentsof this application can be implemented in electronic hardware, or acombination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether thefunctions are executed in a mode of hardware or software depends onparticular applications and design constraint conditions of thetechnical solutions. A person skilled in the art may use differentmethods to implement the described functions for each particularapplication, but it is not to be considered that the implementation goesbeyond the scope of this application.

Further, generally, improvements to a technology can be clearlydistinguished as improvements in hardware (e.g. improvements to circuitstructures such as diodes, transistors, switches, etc.) or software(improvements to method processes). However, with the development oftechnology, improvements of many method procedures can be considered asdirect improvements of hardware circuit structures. Designers almost allprogram an improved method procedure to a hardware circuit, to obtain acorresponding hardware circuit structure. Therefore, it does not meanthat the improvement of a method procedure cannot be implemented byusing a hardware entity module. For example, a programmable logic device(PLD) (for example, a field programmable gate array (FPGA)) is a type ofan integrated circuit whose logic function is determined by a visitor byprogramming the device. Designers program a digital device “integrated”on a PLD instead of requiring chip manufacturers to design and makededicated integrated circuit chips. Moreover, nowadays, instead ofmanually making integrated circuit chips, this programming is mostlyimplemented by using “logic compiler” software, which is similar to thesoftware compiler used in program development and writing. The originalcode is written in a specific programming language before compiling, andthis language is referred to as a hardware description language (HDL).There are various kinds of HDLs, for example, advanced Booleanexpression language (ABEL), altera hardware description language (AHDL),Confluence, Cornell university programming language (CUPL), HDCal, Javahardware description language (JHDL), Lava, Lola, MyHDL, PALASM, Rubyhardware description language (RHDL), and the like. Currently, the mostcommonly used HDLs are very-high-speed integrated circuit hardwaredescription language (VHDL) and Verilog. A person skilled in the artshould also understand that provided that a method procedure islogically programmed and then programmed to an integrated circuit byusing the foregoing hardware description languages, a hardware circuitthat implements the logical method procedure can be easily obtained.

Therefore, the method process provided in this embodiment of thisapplication may be implemented in a hardware manner. For example, acontroller is used to control a touchscreen to implement the methodprocess provided in this embodiment of this application.

The controller may be implemented in any suitable manner. For example,the controller may take the form of a computer readable medium, a logicgate, a switch, an application specific integrated circuit (ApplicationSpecific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), a programmable logic controller, andan embedded microcontroller that store computer readable program code(such as software or firmware) executable by a microprocessor or aprocessor. Examples of the controller include but are not limited to thefollowing microcontrollers: ARC 625D, Atmel AT91SAM, MicrochipPIC18F26K20, and Silicone Labs C8051F320. The memory controller may alsobe implemented as part of the control logic of the memory. A personskilled in the art also appreciates that, in addition to implementingthe controller in the form of pure computer-readable program code, it isalso possible to implement, by logically programming the method steps,the controller in the form of a logic gate, switch, ASIC, programmablelogic controller, and embedded microcontroller and other forms toachieve the same function. Such a controller can thus be considered as ahardware component, and apparatuses included therein for implementingvarious functions can also be considered as structures inside thehardware component. Alternatively, apparatuses configured to implementvarious functions can be considered as both software modulesimplementing the method and structures inside the hardware component.

It should be understood that in the embodiments of this application,“first”, “second”, and the like are merely used to refer to differentobjects, and do not mean that there are other limitations on thereferred objects.

In the embodiments of this application. “at least one” refers to one ormore, and “a plurality of” refers to two or more. And/or describes anassociation relationship for describing associated objects andrepresents that three relationships may exist. For example, A and/or Bmay represent the following cases: Only A exists, both A and B exist,and only B exists. A and B may be singular or plural. The character “/”in this specification generally indicates an “or” relationship betweenthe associated objects. “At least one of the following” or a similarexpression thereof refers to any combination of these items, includingone item or any combination of a plurality of items. For example, atleast one of a, b, or c may represent a, b, c, “a-b”, “a-c”, “b-c”, or“a-b-c”, where a, b, and c may be singular or plural.

A person of ordinary skill in the art may be aware that the modules andalgorithm steps described in the embodiments disclosed herein can beimplemented by a combination of electronic hardware, computer software,and electronic hardware. Whether the functions are executed in a mode ofhardware or software depends on particular applications and designconstraint conditions of the technical solutions. A person skilled inthe art may use different methods to implement the described functionsfor each particular application, but it is not to be considered that theimplementation goes beyond the scope of this application.

A person skilled in the art may clearly understand that, for simple andclear description, for specific work processes of the foregoingdescribed system, apparatus, and module, reference may be made tocorresponding process in the foregoing method embodiments, and detailsare not described herein again.

In several embodiments provided in this application, when any functionis implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold orused as an independent product, the functions may be stored in a(computer) readable storage medium Based on such an understanding, thetechnical solutions of this application essentially, or the partcontributing to the prior art, or some of the technical solutions may beimplemented in a form of a software product. The software product isstored in a storage medium, and includes several instructions forinstructing a terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, a personalcomputer, or the like) to perform all or some of the steps of themethods described in the embodiments of this application. The foregoingstorage medium includes: any medium that can store program code, such asa USB flash drive, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), arandom access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or a compact disc.

The foregoing descriptions are merely specific implementations of thisapplication. Any variation or replacement readily figured out by aperson skilled in the art within the technical scope disclosed in thisapplication shall fall within the protection scope of this application.The protection scope of this application shall be subject to theprotection scope of the claims.

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 15. A method for displaying a schedule, comprising:displaying a first interface that comprises information of a firstschedule and a first prompting information, wherein the information ofthe first schedule comprises an occurrence time of the first schedule,an event name of the first schedule, and location information of thefirst schedule, and wherein the first prompting information indicates aplurality of schedule conflicts; displaying, in response to a firstoperation on the first interface, a second processing interface thatcomprises the occurrence time of the first schedule, the event name ofthe first schedule, the location information of the first schedule, aninviter of the first schedule, and event names of a plurality ofschedules; displaying, in response to an operation on the secondprocessing interface, a schedule detail interface of the first schedule;and displaying, in response to a second operation on the firstinterface, the schedule detail interface of the first schedule.
 16. Themethod of claim 15, wherein the schedule detail interface of the firstschedule comprises: the occurrence time of the first schedule; the eventname of the first schedule; the location information of the firstschedule; the inviter of the first schedule; and a number ofparticipants in the first schedule.
 17. The method of claim 15, whereinthe second processing interface further comprises time information ofthe plurality of schedules.
 18. The method of claim 15, wherein thefirst prompting information does not comprise the event names of theplurality of schedules.
 19. The method of claim 15, wherein displayingthe schedule detail interface of the first schedule is in response to anoperation on an area corresponding to the event name of the firstschedule on the second processing interface.
 20. The method of claim 15,wherein the second processing interface is a second pop-up window,wherein the occurrence time of the first schedule, the event name of thefirst schedule, the location information of the first schedule, and theinviter of the first schedule are displayed in a first area of thesecond pop-up window, wherein the event names of the plurality ofschedules are displayed in a second area of the second pop-up window,and wherein the second area is below the first area.
 21. The method ofclaim 20, wherein the pop-up window further comprises a plurality ofcandidate items for processing the first schedule, and wherein theplurality of candidate items is displayed below the event names of theplurality of schedules.
 22. The method of claim 21, wherein theplurality of candidate items comprises an alarm clock reminder item, anignoring item, and a deleting item, and wherein the method furthercomprises turning the item of the second schedule in a schedule listgray in response to the ignoring item on the second processing interfacebeing selected.
 23. The method of claim 22 wherein the plurality ofcandidate items comprises an entrusting item, and wherein in response tothe entrusting item on the second processing interface being selected,the method further comprises: sending a call request, based on anidentity of the first schedule; starting a mailbox application; anddisplaying a first email editing interface that comprises an emailaddress of at least one of a recipient, a sender, a carbon copy object,and a blind carbon copy object, which are automatically generated. 24.The method of claim 22, wherein the plurality of candidate itemscomprises an asking for leave item, and wherein in response to theasking for leave item being selected for the first schedule, the methodfurther comprises: acquiring email address information of a manager of acurrent user through intelligent identification; and displaying a secondemail editing interface that comprises an email address of a recipient,wherein the email address of the recipient is automatically generatedbased on the email address information of the manager of the currentuser.
 25. The method of claim 21, further comprising adding a scheduleconflict processing record of the first schedule into a schedule table,wherein the schedule conflict processing record of the first schedulecomprises an identity of the first schedule, the occurrence time of thefirst schedule, the event name of the first schedule, the locationinformation of the first schedule, a conflict mark of the firstschedule, and marker bits respectively corresponding to the plurality ofcandidate items.
 26. The method of claim 15, wherein displaying thefirst interface comprises displaying the first interface based on timeconflicts among the plurality of schedules.
 27. The method of claim 26,wherein before displaying the first interface, the method furthercomprises: receiving the information of the first schedule from anotherdevice; adjusting whether the occurrence time of the first scheduleoverlaps with occurrence times of established schedules to be executed,wherein the established schedules to be executed exclude expiredschedules; and determining the plurality of schedules that overlap withthe occurrence time of the first schedule.
 28. The method of claim 15,wherein displaying the first interface comprises displaying the firstinterface based on location conflicts among the plurality of schedules.29. The method of claim 15, further comprising: displaying a secondinterface, wherein the second interface is a day view interface, thesecond interface comprises the event name of the first schedule and theevent name of the second schedule, and the second schedule conflictswith the first schedule; and modifying an occurrence time of the secondschedule based on a position of the second schedule after and inresponse to a dragging operation on the second schedule along a timeaxis.
 30. The method of claim 15, wherein the first interface furthercomprises a schedule list of the plurality of schedules, second labelsare respectively displayed in display regions corresponding to theplurality of schedules, and a second label comprises text contentindicating a schedule conflict.
 31. The method of claim 30, wherein theplurality of schedules comprises a third schedule, wherein the methodfurther comprises modifying an occurrence time of the third schedule,wherein the modified occurrence time of the third schedule does notoverlap with the occurrence time of established schedules to beexecuted, and wherein after modifying the occurrence time of the thirdschedule, on the first interface, a display region corresponding to thethird interface does not comprise the second label.
 32. An electronicdevice, comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memoriescoupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions that,when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic deviceto be configured to display a first interface that comprises informationof a first schedule and a first prompting information, wherein theinformation of the first schedule comprises an occurrence time of thefirst schedule, an event name of the first schedule, and locationinformation of the first schedule, and wherein the first promptinginformation indicates a plurality of schedule conflicts; display, inresponse to a first operation on the first interface, a secondprocessing interface that comprises the occurrence time of the firstschedule, the event name of the first schedule, the location informationof the first schedule, an inviter of the first schedule, and event namesof a plurality of schedules; display, in response to an operation on thesecond processing interface, a schedule detail interface of the firstschedule; and display, in response to a second operation on the firstinterface, the schedule detail interface of the first schedule.
 33. Theelectronic device of claim 32, wherein the schedule detail interface ofthe first schedule comprises: the occurrence time of the first schedule;the event name of the first schedule; the location information of thefirst schedule; the inviter of the first schedule; and a number ofparticipants in the first schedule.
 34. A non-transitorycomputer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, whenexecuted by one or more processors of an electronic device, cause theelectronic device to be configured to: display a first interface thatcomprises information of a first schedule and a first promptinginformation, wherein the information of the first schedule comprises anoccurrence time of the first schedule, an event name of the firstschedule, and location information of the first schedule, and whereinthe first prompting information indicates a plurality of scheduleconflicts; display, in response to a first operation on the firstinterface, a second processing interface that comprises the occurrencetime of the first schedule, the event name of the first schedule, thelocation information of the first schedule, an inviter of the firstschedule, and event names of a plurality of schedules; display, inresponse to an operation on the second processing interface, a scheduledetail interface of the first schedule; and display, in response to asecond operation on the first interface, the schedule detail interfaceof the first schedule.